Computerized Drawing to Be Held for Selected Waterfowl Blind Sites

NASHVILLE --- As announced earlier, a computerized hunt drawing system will be used for waterfowl blind sites on Bogota, the new Thorny Cypress Wildlife Management Area in Dyer County and four units of the Chickamauga WMA (Candies Creek, Johnson Bottoms, Rogers Creek, and Yellow Creek). The application will be available from Sept. 8 through midnight (CDT) on Oct. 13, 2010.

 

• Priority Drawing System: TWRA’s Priority Drawing System gives priority points to hunters based on the number of years they have participated without being drawn for a hunt. All applications will be drawn with zero priority points this year. Drawn applicants will remain at zero and unsuccessful applicants will receive one priority point for next year’s drawing.

           

• Drawing Procedures: An applicant is randomly selected by the computer. The hunt choices are reviewed in the order they are listed on the application until a choice with a vacancy remaining is found or the application runs out of choices.

 

• Successful applicants (and guests) must possess all appropriate licenses, permits and a confirmation number issued by TWRA to hunt.

 • Reservations are nontransferable. Any person violating this rule and regulation is subject to having his/her reservation and/or hunting privileges revoked and may be subject to prosecution.

 

• The successful applicant can bring three additional hunters (guests) of his choice, each day of the hunt. The number of hunters in a blind may not exceed four, one of which must be the successful applicant.

 

• TWRA will send a packet of information to the successful applicant, which will include detail maps and GPS coordinates, rules and regulations for the hunt, and a notice of intention post card.

 

 • The notice of intention may be completed by return mail, phone or e-mail request. Reply must be received two weeks prior to the first day of the permitees hunt.

 

• Hunts which are not reserved with the notice of intention card will be considered vacant. The WMA staff will notify the general public of the vacant sites using the TWRA website, WMA answer machine, or e-mail request.

 

 • A local hand-held drawing will occur for vacant sites to be filled at the management areas.

---TWRA---